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 | SUPPORTING SICK CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES
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By
Penny Cook, RSCN, Cert Couns, Family Liaison Sister, Children's Services, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK
Description
This book offers comprehensive guidance on providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support for sick and dying children and their
families. In addition to covering the practical and underlying theoretical approaches to counseling, it explores defense mechanisms and
coping strategies.
Audience
Practising Child Health Nurses and students on either P2000 child health branch programs or post-registration RSCN courses, Paediatric
ITU Nurses, Specialist Child Health Nurses working in Oncology and Palliative Care, Counsellors, Family Therapists, Play Therapists,
Child Psychologists, Chaplains, Social Workers
Contents
Support · Defence Mechanisms and Coping strategies · Anger · Fear and anxiety · Guilt and Responsibility ·
Depression · Loss and Separation · Using Counselling Skills to Support Sick Children and Their Families · Organ
Donation and Children · Transplantation and Children · Siblings of Sick Children · Children and Parents in Hospital · Support in the Community · Death of a Child · Supporting the Staff · Supporting Bereaved Families ·
Conclusion · Appendix: Useful Addresses
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 240 pages, publication date: OCT-1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2207-4
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2207-1
Imprint: BAILLIÈRE TINDALL
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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